A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

J Gupta, X Bai, DM Liverman, J Rockström… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of
the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth—is exacerbating …

Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

A Wasti, P Ray, S Wi, C Folch… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

Map** the world's free-flowing rivers

G Grill, B Lehner, M Thieme, B Geenen, D Tickner… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Free-flowing rivers (FFRs) support diverse, complex and dynamic ecosystems globally,
providing important societal and economic services. Infrastructure development threatens …

Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century

EF Moran, MC Lopez, N Moore… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Hydropower has been the leading source of renewable energy across the world, accounting
for up to 71% of this supply as of 2016. This capacity was built up in North America and …

GOODD, a global dataset of more than 38,000 georeferenced dams

M Mulligan, A van Soesbergen, L Sáenz - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
By presenting the most comprehensive GlObal geOreferenced Database of Dams to date
containing more than 38,000 dams as well as their associated catchments, we enable new …

The Brisbane declaration and global action agenda on environmental flows (2018)

AH Arthington, A Bhaduri, SE Bunn… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A decade ago, scientists and practitioners working in environmental water management
crystallized the progress and direction of environmental flows science, practice, and policy in …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants within the global river network

H Ehalt Macedo, B Lehner, J Nicell… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The main objective of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is to remove pathogens,
nutrients, organics, and other pollutants from wastewater. After these contaminants are …

An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales

G Grill, B Lehner, AE Lumsdon… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The global number of dam constructions has increased dramatically over the past six
decades and is forecast to continue to rise, particularly in less industrialized regions …

Sustainable water management under future uncertainty with eco-engineering decision scaling

NLR Poff, CM Brown, TE Grantham… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Managing freshwater resources sustainably under future climatic and hydrological
uncertainty poses novel challenges. Rehabilitation of ageing infrastructure and construction …

Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems

B Lehner, G Grill - Hydrological Processes, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite significant recent advancements, global hydrological models and their input
databases still show limited capabilities in supporting many spatially detailed research …